Jennifer Galvão is a writer and teacher from New York. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan.
She is the 2023-2025 Kenyon Review Fiction Fellow.
I am at work on a historical fiction novel about shellfish, dementia, and Portugal’s Carnation Revolution.
In my short fiction, I write about girlhood, boybands, martyrdom, and the fanaticism of female friendship.
Currently…
Publications & Awards
Kenyon Review Fellowship, 2023-2025
Semi-finalist, James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest 2023
Sewanee Writers’ Conference Contributing Participant 2023
Luso-American Fellowship Finalist, DISQUIET 2023
Geoffrey James Gosling Novel Prize, 2022
1st Prize, Hopwood Novel Award, 2022
Degenerate Matter, Masters Review 2022 Summer Short Story Award, honorable mention
awarded by Brit Bennett & Matthew Salesses
awarded by Kristen Arnett
